
Transit tax wins City-County Council OK, clearing final hurdle
The 17-8 vote will put into place an income tax increase that will raise at least $54.4 million annually to fund major improvements to the city’s bus service.
The 17-8 vote will put into place an income tax increase that will raise at least $54.4 million annually to fund major improvements to the city’s bus service.
IndyGo says it needs to keep working toward a summer construction date so that the transit line is “shovel-ready” if and when federal grant funds are released.
While roads are still made from time-tested 20th-century staples such as concrete and asphalt, the formulas used to mix them and the techniques used to lay them down are very 21st century.
In its annual rankings of most reliable auto brands, J.D. Power said the audio-communication-entertainment-navigation category caused the most problems in the survey, accounting for 22 percent of complaints.
The City-County Council committee vote came after Mayor Joe Hogsett’s top adviser urged members to say yes—the first time the mayor’s office had expressed an opinion publicly about whether the tax increase should pass.
At Ohio State University, football coach Urban Meyer and members of his family took 11 personal trips last school year at a cost to the university of $120,000. Purdue University flew an alumnus from Rhode Island for $15,000.
Officials are mulling designs for revamping sections of the Indianapolis International Airport, with an emphasis on a more natural feel, clearer signage and moving stores closer to the gates.
Supporters of a proposal to raise income taxes to expand mass transit in Indianapolis have at least 11 of the 13 votes they need to implement the hike.
Changes in trade policy would reverberate across Indiana, given its status in a new Brookings Institution study as the most export-dependent state in the country.
The number of passengers leaving Indianapolis for international destinations last year grew 69.2 percent, to 37,000.
The Indiana House has approved a road-funding plan that would raise the gasoline tax by 10 cents and increase vehicle registration fees to fund improvements to the state's infrastructure.
Baldwin & Lyon’s said gross premiums written during the fourth quarter totaled a record $104.9 million, 7.2 percent higher than the fourth quarter of 2015.
Indiana officials have delayed by another seven months the deadline for finishing construction on the Interstate 69 extension segment between Bloomington and Martinsville.
An 11-year-old Indiana girl died in an all-terrain vehicle crash in 2015, and her mother has been pushing to change laws on helmets and safety education.
The Postal Service has lost money for 10 consecutive years. First-class mail volume is down as people rely more on email for online bill payments. But online shopping has led to record volume in its package-delivery business.
The company has acquired a 10-acre parcel near the southeast corner of Interstate 65 and Whitestown Parkway for $3.6 million, giving it 25 acres at the interchange for the new dealership.
Federal inaction on a $75 million grant IndyGo is counting on to help fund a planned rapid-transit bus line is complicating a City-County Council decision about a transit tax increase.
The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a 2014 decision ordering Celadon to pay more than $4 million to a group of drivers in a dispute over fuel costs.
A trade association will soon adorn gas pumps across Indiana with ads opposing a Republican plan to use higher fuel taxes to pay for infrastructure repairs.
Toyota Industries Corp. is getting into the logistics business, and it’s buying Indianapolis-based Bastian Solutions LLC to get a jumpstart in the sector.